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RvD IDEA Recognized for Entrepreneurship Curriculum Innovation
The Raymond von Dran Innovation and Disruptive Entrepreneurship Accelerator (RvD IDEA) has been recognized for excellence in curriculum innovation for entrepreneurship by the Deshpande Foundation. The foundation runs the annual Deshpande Symposium, a gathering that brings together thought leaders in…
Zach Stringham ’15 Wins Industrial Designers Society of America Student Merit Award
Zach Stringham ’15, an industrial and interaction design (IID) major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Design, was named the Student Merit Award (SMA) winner of the Industrial Designers Society of America’s (IDSA) Northeast district during…
Software Integrates Disciplines for Aircraft Design
In the aircraft design industry, the area of geometry and geometry handling is considered the least glamorous part of the design and analysis process. But the “ugly stepchild” of the design process also usually contributes to 75 percent of the elapsed…
Scholar Spotlight: Austin Miller ’15
Austin Miller is a senior international relations and economics major. He is an active and involved student, constantly striving to make the most of his time at Syracuse University. He is involved in multiple student organizations, in which he frequently…
Student Startups Win Over $175,000
Student startups won a combined $178,500 in seed funding on April 11 when, for the third consecutive year, Syracuse University entrepreneurship and innovation competitions came together as OneUniversity to support them.
University Celebrates Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
This year’s commemorative speaker is Nina Davuluri, Miss America 2014. Davuluri spent her year in that role traveling across the country to speak on “Celebrating Diversity through Cultural Competency.”
Campaign Encourages Women to Say ‘I Am Enough’
“However many people that can feel great, even if it’s just a day or a week, that’s the whole goal of it,” says Sara Eckhardt, the founder of the I Am Enough movement at Syracuse University. Eckhardt created I Am…
Libraries and Partners Offer Second Human Library Event
The Syracuse University Libraries will host its second annual Human Library event on Wednesday, April 1, from 2-5 p.m. in Bird Library, in partnership with the Disability Cultural Center, the Office of Learning Communities, the Office of Multicultural Affairs, the…
Lessons from the Fishbowl
Just before Spring Break, two dozen eighth- and ninth-grade students filed into a biology lab in the Life Sciences Complex, where they were greeted by tanks of petite, striped fish. Their assignment? To study the animals up close. The students…
Huang Receives NSF Grant for Mobile Crowdsourcing System
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a continuing grant to School of Information Studies (iSchool) assistant professor and principal investigator Yun Huang to examine two questions related to public safety and mobile crowdsourcing. The two-pronged study, the first phase…